Islami Jamhoori Ittehad

The Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) was a right-wing conservative alliance in Pakistan which existed from 1988 to 1990. Its major components were the Pakistan Muslim League, the National Peoples Party of Pakistan, and Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, and the ISI intelligence services under Hamid Gul played a major role in forming the alliance. In 1988, the young industrialist Nawaz Sharif had emerged as the most powerful non-Pakistan Peoples Party politician, and his alliance won a majority in the 1990 elections. In 1993, however, the Islamist parties refused to support Sharif, leading to PPP candidate Benazir Bhutto's rise to power.